Patent 7287459 was granted and assigned to Honda on October, 2007 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
A piston for an internal combustion engine, the piston having a skirt part, comprises: a resinous coating layer formed on a surface of the skirt part; and a plurality of concaves regularly arranged in the resinous coating layer. The concaves are non-coated regions in which said resinous coating layer is not formed.